Tha Ap 386Pilakkhaphaladāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

381. {384.} Pilakkhaphaladāyaka

Walt 3298 Seeing Buddha in the forest,

Atthadassi, Greatly Famed One,

happy, with pleasure in my heart,

I gave wave-leafed fig fruit to him . Verse 1

Walt 3299 In the eighteen hundred aeons

since I gave fruit to the Buddha ,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of giving fruit. Verse 2

Walt 3300 Being in Best Buddha’s presence

was a very good thing for me.

The three knowledges are attained;

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 3

Walt 3301 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 4

Walt 3302 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Pilakkhaphaladāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Pilakkhaphaladāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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